Struggle to raise production capacityAngola will see only small increases in oil production capacity for the next few years – or perhaps none, if the decline in output from the older deep-water fields cannot be checked, Martin Quinlan writes

Angola under pressureThe oil revenue squeeze is presenting the government with its greatest challenge since the civil war, Martin Quinlan writes

Time to changeUpstream developments are often troubled by cost inflation and over-runs. SBC’s Eric Janvier* argues that as discoveries become more marginal and oil prices continue to fall, oil and gas companies must take a closer look at project management – and change the way they select and execute project

Libya nears the abyss The attack at Es Sider has plunged the country's oil industry into its ever-deepening civil war